After noticing a few of the most useful works which contain instructions to
travellers, in the first place, Collections and Histories of Voyages and
Travels are placed: next follow Voyages round the World; - Voyages and
Travels which embrace more than one quarter of the World; - Travels in
Europe generally; - Travels in more than one Country of Europe; - Travels in
each particular Country of Europe. It is in this particular department of
the Catalogue that the plan of reference by numbers is more especially
necessary and useful; for the Index to the Catalogue being drawn up with
reference to the numbers, not only those travels which are confined to one
country, - France, for instance, - may easily be found, but also all those
travels which comprehend France along with other countries.
The same arrangement is pursued in the other parts of the world, - Asia,
Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. The articles are arranged as
nearly as possible in the chronological order in which the voyages and
travels were performed in each particular country, and the countries are
placed according to their geographical relation to one another.
I.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TRAVELERS.
1. L'Utilite des Voyages qui concernent la Connoissance des Inscriptions,
Sentences, Dieux, Lares, Peintures anciennes, Bas Reliefs, &c. Langues,
&c.; avec un Memoire de quelques Observations generales qu'on peut faire
pour ne pas voyager inutilement. Par Ch. C. Baudelot Dairval. 2 vol. 12mo.
Paris 1656. - The Rouen edition is much inferior. This is an excellent
work.
2. C. Linnaeus on the Benefit of Travelling in one's own Country. (In
Stillingfleet's Tracts.) This was published in Latin, separately, and in
the Amoenitates Academicae, in the Select, ex Amoenit.; and in the
Fundamenta Botanices of Gilibert.
3. Instructio Peregrinatoris, Dissertatio. Praeside C. Linnaeo. 1759, 4to.
4. Memoire Instructif sur la Maniere de rassembler, de preparer, de
conserver, et d'envoyer les diverses Curiosites d'Histoire Naturelle. Par
Turgot. 1758. 8vo. - This work is also appended to "Avis pour le Transport
par Mer des Arbres, des Plantes vivaces, des Semences, et de diverses
autres Curiosites d'Histoire Naturelle. Par L.H. Duhamel." Published at
Paris, 1753. 12mo.
5. Directions in what Manner Specimens of all Kinds may be collected,
preserved, &c. By J.R. Forster. London, 1771. - This tract, worthy of its
well-informed and able author, was published along with his Catalogue of
North American Animals.
6. The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion. By J.C. Lettsom, M.D.
London, 1799 8vo.
7. Analysis of the Natural Classification of Mammalia, for the Use of
Travellers.
Introduction to the Ornithology of Cuvier, for the Use of Travellers.
Introduction to Conchology, for the Use of Travellers. By T.E. Bowdich.
Paris, 1821-2. 8vo.
8. Instructions for Travellers. By Dean Tucker. 1757. 4to.
9. Essay to direct and extend the Enquiries of patriotic Travellers. By
Count Berchtold. - The second volume contains a Catalogue of Travels in
Europe; the first alone relates to the subject of the title. 2 vols. 8vo.
1789.
10. Essay on the Study of Statistics; intended to assist the Enquiries of
inexperienced Travellers. By D. Boileau. 12mo. 1807.
11. Fried. J. Freyherr von Gunderode Gedanken uber Reisen. Frankfort, 1781.
8vo.
12. Apodenick, oder die kunst zu Reisen von Posselt. Leipsic, 1795.
8vo. - This is an excellent work.
13. Uber den Worth und Nutzen der Fussreisen. Hanover, 1805. 8vo. - We
notice this work, because it points out the superior advantages possessed
by foot travellers, in exploring the natural beauties and natural history
of a country.
II.
COLLECTIONS AND HISTORIES OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.
14. The principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the
English Nation, made by Sea or Over-land, to the remote and farthest
distant Quarters of the Earth. By Richard Hakluyt, 3 vols. fol. 1598, 1599,
1600. - This work is often incomplete; the completeness of it may be
ascertained by its containing the voyage to Cadiz, which was suppressed by
order of Queen Elizabeth, after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex. The
first volume of this collection contains Voyages to the North and
North-east: The True State of Iceland; The Defeat of the Spanish Armada:
The Victory at Cadiz, &c. The second volume contains Voyages to the South
and South-east Parts of the World: and the third to North America, the West
Indies, and round the World. It has lately been republished.
15. S. Purchas, his Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, 5 vols. folio, 1625-26. - The
first volume contains Voyages by the Ancient Circumnavigators of the Globe:
Voyages along the Coasts of Africa to the East-Indies, Japan, China,
Philippines, and the Persian and Arabian Gulphs. Vol. 2. contains Voyages
and Relations of Africa, Ethiopia, Palestina, Arabia, Persia, Asia. Vol. 3.
Tartary, China, Russia, North-west America, and the Polar Regions. Vol. 4.
America and the West Indies. Vol. 5. Early History of the World; of the
East Indies; Egypt; Barbary, &c. &c.
16. A General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Published by Astley. 4
vols. 4to. 1745.
17. A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from
original MSS.; others now first published in English. By Churchill. 6 vols.
folio. 1732.
18. Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Harris's Collection of
Voyages and Travels, from Hakluyt, Purchas, Ramusio, &c. The whole work
revised and continued, by Dr. John Campbell. 2 vols. fol. 1744.
19. A General Collection of the best and most interesting Voyages and
Travels, in all Parts of the World. By John Pinkerton. 1808-1814. 17 vols.
4to.
20. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, arranged in
systematic Order. By Robert Kerr. Edin. 1811-22. 18 vols. 8vo.
21. Relation de divers Voyages curieux, qui n'ont point encore ete publies,
et qu'on a traduits ou tires des Originaux des Voyageurs Francais,
Espagnols, Allemands, &c. &c. Par M. Thevenot. Paris, 1696. 2 vol.
fol. - This work is seldom found complete: the marks of the complete and
genuine edition are given in the Bibliotheque des Voyages, vol.
